• Question: What is the correct name for a red blood cell?

    Asked by Brie mode fearless to Theresia, Katie, Giovanna, Duane, Andy on 13 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Theresia Mina

      Theresia Mina answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      it’s called erythrocytes 🙂

    • Photo: Giovanna Bermano

      Giovanna Bermano answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      This time our Greek friends gave the name of “erythrocytes”…erythros = red kytos= hollow vessel

    • Photo: Duane Mellor

      Duane Mellor answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      Erythrocytes is the correct name, some older text books may call the red corpuscles which means small floating bodies. I might be showing my age here?

    • Photo: Andrew Philp

      Andrew Philp answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      They are called erythrocytes

    • Photo: Katie Pickering

      Katie Pickering answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      same answer as everyone else 🙂

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